| The best way to acquire vocabulary is to hear a word used in speech or encounter it in the course of reading a book. Memorizing definitions from a vocabulary list is a far inferior method.
All children begin school with the expectation that they will learn to read. Unfortunately, the practice of placing all children in the same beginning reading classes guarantees that from 40-60% of these children will fail to learn to read. The reason is that reading requires a certain minimum vocabulary in the learner. Large numbers of children begin school with very small vocabularies and little general knowledge. According to one estimate, pre-schoolers of professional families are typically exposed to 2,150 different words before they begin school. Pre-schoolers from working class families arrive with about 1,250 words. Children of welfare parents may begin school with as few as 620 words. The only certain way to protect your child from reading failure is to send your five year old to school with an adequate vocabulary and knowledge of the alphabet. |
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